https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/climate/landslide-risk-united-states.html
New Look at Landslide Potential Shows 44% of U.S. Is at Risk
A new federal database helps users determine the likelihood of their community experiencing a landslide.
By Austyn Gaffney, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2024
Almost 44 percent of the United States could experience a landslide, according to new data from government scientists.
Some of those potential landslides could be catastrophic, according to researchers, but no one knows when they could happen…
Now, residents can input their address and figure out their own susceptibility. The risk at a given location is shown with a color gradient in which yellow means low susceptibility and red means high susceptibility… [end quote]
The huge scale of the threat and the potential for impacting the property and insurance markets may give this data Macroeconomic significance.
I personally rejected a very nice home with a gorgeous view over the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward Canada (while house hunting) because it was located about 50 feet away from the edge of a tall sand bluff. (In a community eponymously named “The Bluffs.”) I marveled at homes in California perched on steep hillsides over deep ravines.
https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ae120962f459434b8c904b456c82669d
My current home is on a ridge which USGS has rated as solid but it is next to an area of moderate landslide susceptibility. (Which is also a wet land that would turn into mush during an earthquake.)
Anyone who lives in an area that could slide in the event of heavy rainfall also needs to consider what would happen if they live in an area susceptible to earthquakes.
Wendy